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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
11
The Racine Baptist Youth Fellowship schedules an ice cream social downtown Saturday evening with rain plan in the church basement. In Portland an ice cream social at Great Bend Grange Hall is set for Friday night as announced today.
Ambulance trips by Rawlings Coats include Minnie Lowe moved to Martz Clinic Pomeroy for treatment. Susan Hawley returned from Holzer Hospital to Cheshire home recovering from a fractured hip. Virginia Gothard sent home from Holzer Hospital to her mother Lesta Gothard on S Third Ave.
Meigs county Farm Bureau and Grange members gathered at the Southeast Test Farm Carpenter to hear Dr. G D Scarseth of the American Farm Foundation press for farming as a business. He warned that without businesslike management farms will fail to fund roads schools homes and recreation. He urged practices to lower costs and increase efficiency including soil building and careful fertilizer use. The event featured farm tours games and a community picnic with speeches by local leaders and farming students.
Meigs County records show multiple property transfers including Jessie B. Allen and J. H. Allen to Hilda and Ronald Hart in Lebanon Township. Transfers include 2.5 acres by Floyd C. Millhone to Vance E Millhone in Olive Township and parcels in Olive Township by Leota Cooper to Vance Millhone. Other transfers list Harry and Jessie Houdashelt to John A and Dorothy L Bryan Lot 48 Pomeroy. Harry W Kauff to Charles and Helen Postelwait 7 acres in Salisbury Township. Lady A Canaday to Carl C and Maxine Miller Lot 2 Rutland. Gene Pierotti Olga Pierotti and Lucia Ebersbach to Odetta Pierotti Lot 141 Pomeroy. Cyrus P and Elizabeth Durst to Addie Cross 59.69 acres Salem Township. John C Bacon administrator and Joe Tribbett to H M and Laura Ruth 20 acres in Olive. Leander Chevalier to Sarah J Chevalier George F Chevalier Scott Chevalier Mulligan Chevalier Edna Burden Edward Buckley Delbert Buckley Verda Buckley Vera B Price Herbert Buckley Diana Buckley.
Natalie and Michael Ewing children of Mr and Mrs Howard K Ewing Main St are ill with measles Deanna elder daughter also has had measles and the two girls have had mumps and chickenpox this summer Mr and Mrs William Hawley vacationing on Long Island were called home by illness of Mr Hawleys mother Mrs Susan Hawley who fell fracturing her hip at her Cheshire home
En route from Nelsonville to Montgomery W Va Mrs William Young Mrs William White and Gilbert Young stopped in Middleport to visit Mrs Earl Lama and to extend condolences for the funeral of John Reuter They were joined by Bertha Fischer of Nelsonville who is visiting the Lamas who are recovering from illnesses
The Women's Society of World Service of the Evangelical U B Church in Enterprise met at Mrs. Thomas Bowen's home. Mrs. D B Spencer led the program on Rebuilding the Church in Europe, noting European debt and need. Members sew kit bags for Europeans and a free literature fund collection was taken. Genevieve Stobart sold nine Evangel subscriptions. Mrs. L R Carmichael closed in prayer. 15 members and four guests attended with help from Mrs. Myrtle Long and Mrs. Clara Karr.
Late Tuesday afternoon the Meigs Coon Hunters Association received 30 black and grey raccoons from the state Division of Conservation and Natural Resources. Dolph Joachim and John Bailey accepted the shipment at the sheriff's office. The 30 animals from a Mifflin Ohio breeding farm were distributed to 15 members and will be released on members farms. Funds from hunting license sales financed the purchase. Two raccoons went to each of several named members including Joe Vadish and Archie Thomas among others near Pomeroy and Orange Township.
The record notes that licenses for temporary theaters were first granted during the reign of Henry VIII in England, indicating early formal regulation of public performance spaces.
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